Thank you again for your support... I knew you were still a kind and caring person with regards to the "program"...
And, I will honestly say that when the program "changed", it was due to a lack of funding, and also votes, on "both shores"... which led to dangerously close consideration of ending the program... the whole "donate to vote" thing (which from it's beginning) I was never a fan of, and did say this to the organizers; but the mindset was made in order to utilize funds, which were not coming in, to keep it running... Back when you were elected, the forums (yours and GCE) were made up of people that would donate $$$ freely, and do so based on "friendly nature" . but now all the forums (with the exception of GCE) are made up of people that are 90% guests, wanting only to get free help to fix a bike, and "poof", they are gone in a heartbeat... Times change, people do also, and the price of a trip like that doubled.. even if sending only one person...(which it has now come back to), making it almost impossible for someone with little or no money to be bestowed with the honor of "a trip of a lifetime".
Thanks again for your support, and voting ends at midnight tonight.